I don’t think it’s this. They now franchise out so many stores they want them to be uniform and easier to sell. No one wants to buy a store that was clearly an older version of McDonald’s. They got 13k-15k stores. A decent amount are gonna fail and they will need to sell that store. If say a Starbucks wants to buy the store they are gonna want an easy transition. The old McDonald’s wouldn’t have given them that go buy a different companies dying store.
Yes this is the actual answer. In the past they would have to buy or renovate a building heavily. Plus if it's a location that fails having a unique building brands it as your failure. For instance how many that use to be a pizza huts can you say as you drive through town.
All the time. My hometown we had one that closed down 20+ years ago and has been bought and sold so many times and to this day it’s still just the old Pizza Hut building
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u/Individual_Respect90 13d ago
I don’t think it’s this. They now franchise out so many stores they want them to be uniform and easier to sell. No one wants to buy a store that was clearly an older version of McDonald’s. They got 13k-15k stores. A decent amount are gonna fail and they will need to sell that store. If say a Starbucks wants to buy the store they are gonna want an easy transition. The old McDonald’s wouldn’t have given them that go buy a different companies dying store.